2023/24 BECE student denied PRESEC admission over church belief

The mother of Evans, a student who sat for the 2023 edition of the BECE and got placed into Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC – Legon) citing church belief says she will not permit her ward to attend the school. 

According to a social media post by the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare sighted by Thisterm.com, Evans denied admission to PRESEC was one of the best students in his Junior High School (JHS) at Tema.

“His Junior High School (JHS) teachers have already shopped the boy’s prospectus but failed to convince the mother to enrol him. Social welfare at Tema is aware and involved.

The mother will not enrol the boy because her new faith does not approve of education. Immediately you call to convince her, you receive a block. I am in touch with her on my other lines and with my other voices and names.

I hear she attends a church called “God’s Kingdom at Last”. I saw a handsome young man as the leader on Facebook. I am struggling to establish contact with the church leader.

While I respect their faith, I believe I can have a conversation with the church leader and intercede for the boy. Someone here can also talk directly with the church leader for us.

Compulsion through the law courts should be the last option. It can take forever to litigate on matters like this, as we want the boy in school in early January, yet have no idea where he is being kept,” Kofi Asare said in the post.

In a recent update on the development, the education think tank’s Executive Director said he has been in touch with the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum on the case involving the 2023 BECE graduates denied admission.

“I have been in touch with the Minister of Education on Evans’ case. He is personally intervening. The Chief Director of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has also been in touch, together with the Department of Children,” he noted.